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FOOTNOTE: *The top ten shipping nations in terms of tonnage: Liberia, Panama, Greece, Japan, Norway, U.S.S.R., United Kingdom, U.S., France, Italy. Several are so-called flags of convenience, used by shippers to hire low-paid foreign sailors...
...materialistic) revolution" is to find a new dynamic for China that can help ensure the stability of its society even when the inevitable economic and political disappointments occur. The pragmatists have succeeded in brushing off the ashes of Maoism. They must now find a way of enabling the Middle Kingdom to advance at last along a middle...
...Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death. So the state of mind glints with a certain fanaticism. It is said that when children saw the telltale sign during the Black Death in the 14th century, they sang "Ring around a rosie!" That meant they saw a ring on the skin...
During the past four difficult years for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia has been its derrick of strength. But the oil industry churned last week with rumors that the rich kingdom has finally grown weary of that role. After trying to fight a global glut by cutting its output from 10.3 million bbl. per day in 1981 to about 2 million bbl. per day currently, Saudi Arabia now appears eager to move its merchandise again. Traders believe the country will try to double its sales by quietly offering price cuts that could include...
While the Saudis have threatened before to boost output, the kingdom's aim on those occasions was to scare the other twelve OPEC members into restraining their production. Now experts believe that the Saudis could be planning a serious effort to boost their income in order to narrow the country's budget deficit, which for 1983 and 1984 totaled $22 billion...